The Car that runs on air

I am totally fine at my age with the ICE-cars and think they are not the demon they are made out to be. I also do not really believe the people behind development of E-cars are totally honest about their motivations. I have no doubt scientist today could massively clean up and reduce the ICE-cars emissions if they had the incentive. There seems to be way too much money pushed from Government into these so called green companies who often are allowed to promise the world to then simply declare bankruptcy after all the cash has flown away / someplace.... and they are never even held accountable to explain Duh, what happen to the xxx millions of dollars we gave you!?
But why invest the money and engineering to create these "clean" ICE vehicles then long-term FCEV or rapid-charging BEVs make more sense and require far less exotic technologies such as HCCI. Not to mention how much mechanically simpler electric cars are, usually you can count the number of moving propulsion parts on one hand. Especially since assuming you're using Nuclear, geothermal, wind, etc to generate the electricity means it will be far cheaper to operate. Even now the actual cost to operate a BEV is far lower than to fuel a gasoline vehicle. I think until there is a wind-change miracle technology there will still be a place for ICE vehicles, especially in air travel since the amount of energy needed is extremely hard to get in any other way in a form lightweight enough to be useful.
 
But why invest the money and engineering to create these "clean" ICE vehicles then long-term FCEV or rapid-charging BEVs make more sense and require far less exotic technologies such as HCCI. Not to mention how much mechanically simpler electric cars are, usually you can count the number of moving propulsion parts on one hand. Especially since assuming you're using Nuclear, geothermal, wind, etc to generate the electricity means it will be far cheaper to operate. Even now the actual cost to operate a BEV is far lower than to fuel a gasoline vehicle. I think until there is a wind-change miracle technology there will still be a place for ICE vehicles, especially in air travel since the amount of energy needed is extremely hard to get in any other way in a form lightweight enough to be useful.
Oh, I am far from anti E-cars. I just know its going to take a long long time to get to the masses without some type of great new innovation and incentive that drives everyone to not only want them but to be able to afford them. I am sure the day is coming. But a lot of us will be gone before that time at the rate just about anything called "green" is going. Someone needs to kick the whole effort in the seat of its pants. Does that mean more government backing? Partnerships and investments between countries and business owners, research and development? It sure would help. Will those things happen?
 
100+ miles range is pretty impressive, and that's from 14 years ago. More than the first EVs.
The leader of that effort / company died. But they are still working at it and put out an estimate of in the next 2 years to debut (something?) so who knows what will happen. They do not appear to be one of those companies more about getting all the grants and government backing to just appear like they are doing something with the money. Of course I do not have my breath held that we will see some daily driver from them. Maybe some industrial machines such as fork lifts to other small industrial applications. I have no horse in the race other than all of us getting to breath cleaner air without bankrupting countries or the world thru somethings no one can afford.
 
My thinking is that there are so many inovative new transportation ideas and inventions I am certain some of our great engineers and minds could turn into a reality other than just E-cars that have so many expensive hurdles to get over. It just seems like the E-cars with all the required charging station infrastructure and battery life / maintenance / disposal is just going to be another trip down a similar path that the ICE-cars took the world on. I hope the world can put some brains and money into some sort of transportation that would not require placing all kinds of power or supply stations and infrastructure from one end of the earth to the other like what we have with the ICE-cars.

I wonder how many folks know that there is an entire subway system underneath LA California? Its was very well recieved and used when built. Big Oil & The Big Three auto maker companies got together with backing of some powerful American politicians and bought out the company. After they bought it they promptly shut it all down and closed it up, burried some of it and like happens it became fogotten. All done to increase sales of motor cars , motor oils and gasoline , automobiles. Outcome = the greatests amounts of smog and air pollution in the 1970s plus the greatest traffic jam daily work commutes for thousands of people in California. Just think how nice and less crowded street and highway use could be in California if that subway was open today and operated similar to New York or other big cities with them in place? Unfortunatelly now like in the past , most innovation I dream of is actually not invented for the good of mankind. It is usually created for the good of people's bank accounts.

India and Israel are two countries who are fast at work to develop something similar in concept to an air powered or some type of vehicles that do not require fossil fuels or anything that would have environmental impact thru having to use a fuel and routinely expose of some waste products. Its is a tall test for sure.
Dude this isn’t like some immature technology that’s just waiting for a “breakthrough” or improvements to be successful. It’s about physics and basic thermodynamics, you have no chemical energy and as I said not even a phase change to make it efficient. Given the truly hideous efficiency in compression (no way around it) it will never be competitive. Physics matters.

People look at this stuff and think it’s like the Wright brothers where people said they’d never fly. It’s not that. This is like the Wright brothers trying to use a fireplace bellows for thrust. There’s a fundamental problem here.
 
Dude this isn’t like some immature technology that’s just waiting for a “breakthrough” or improvements to be successful. It’s about physics and basic thermodynamics, you have no chemical energy and as I said not even a phase change to make it efficient. Given the truly hideous efficiency in compression (no way around it) it will never be competitive. Physics matters.

People look at this stuff and think it’s like the Wright brothers where people said they’d never fly. It’s not that. This is like the Wright brothers trying to use a fireplace bellows for thrust. There’s a fundamental problem here.
That is very funny, fireplace bellows for thrust.... good one. ;)
 
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